Preemies

Express News Service BENGALURU: A new study has found that the environment has a direct and indirect impact on pregnancy, resulting in stillbirths, pre-term birth and babies small for gestational age.  The report…

Elana Gotkine FRIDAY, April 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment guided by cerebral oximetry monitoring for the first 72 hours after birth is not associated with a lower incidence of death or severe…

Severe brain injury that develops slowly after preterm births, causing the likes of cerebral palsy, may be treatable, new research from the University of Auckland finds. Over a third of cases of cerebral palsy are still linked to being born…

Human breastmilk has long been considered "liquid gold" among clinicians treating premature infants in a newborn intensive care unit (NICU). Breastmilk-fed "preemies" are healthier, on average, than those fed formula. Why is that true,…

The University of Massachusetts Amherst assistant professor of nursing is researching whether fresh breast milk can be shown to provide more benefits to NICU babies than breast milk pumped from the mother that has been refrigerated or…

In a study with mice reported today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, a Johns Hopkins Medicine research team has provided what may be the most definitive view to date of the biological process leading to necrotizing…

The mechanism linking prematurity at birth and cardiomyopathy in young adulthood may be related to diffuse myocardial fibrosis, the small…

Young schoolchildren who had been born very early and who logged "screen time" in excess of 2 hours daily were more likely also to show…

AB blood type was associated with a higher risk for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and focal intestinal perforation (FIP) in preterm infants, as…

Huong (Kelle) Phan, assistant professor at the University of Houston College of Nursing, found a solution to this problem. She says, ‘Plastic drapes can effectively reduce the hypothermia rate in very low birth-weight neonates during PICC…